Efrim Manuel Menuck

Canadian musician Effrim Manuel Menuck is probably best known as one of the founding members, and guitarist, for the post-rock group Godspeed You! Black Emperor. He subsequently also formed Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and released solo work. Menuck's father was a doctor and his mother a nurse, and he was born in Montreal but grew up in Toronto, where he attended Hebrew day school from grades one to nine. While in 11th grade he dropped out of high school and returned to Montreal, but at 20 years old, without a home or a job, he suffered a nervous breakdown. After ...